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More than 150 contracting jobs in Southeast Michigan could be on the chopping block in the next few months now that a last-minute slash in budget funding has all but eliminated the Ground Combat Vehicle program.
Sterling Heights-based General Dynamics Land Systems and the nearby offices of BAE Systems Inc. are wrapping up pre-production development on the GCV under contract extensions of $180.5 million and $159.4 million, respectively, which expire in June.
An evaluation of their work would have followed this year with initial production orders to follow, but a new budget reduction will relegate the program to a back-burner study project instead after funding was slashed by nearly $500 million to $100 million.
Hundreds of local engineering, logistics, program management and other defense contracting jobs are connected to Ground Combat Vehicle. The two contractors could mitigate their losses this year with other contract opportunities, like the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle, where contractors expect to submit proposals to the U.S. Army by Feb. 24.
But analysts also expect elevated competition for AMPV and other new contracts as federal budgets tighten, making that prospect more of a long shot.
"We will be making some decisions over the next 30 days about how to go forward (with job cuts). This was all a huge surprise to us, and kind of a curveball," said Mark Signorelli, vice president and general manager of vehicle systems for BAE's offices in Sterling Heights and its ranking site executive in Michigan.
"This size of a cut effectively ends the program at the end of the technology demonstration phase in June," he said. "We knew that the recent relief from (federal budget) sequestration this year didn't restore the budget, and there were going to be cuts anyway, but my guess is we will have to start moving a number of people off the program."
BAE has about 330 employees in Sterling Heights, and Signorelli estimates nearly 300 of them have at least some job duties connected with Ground Combat Vehicle. Less than one-fourth of those are dedicated full time to the program, he said, and some might be able to adjust their duties or transfer to other projects — but the company still expects some reduction in force.
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A $1.1 trillion federal omnibus spending package signed by President Barack Obama last month includes just $100 million in 2014 defense appropriations for that program. That's off from $592 million in Army's budget request and in the previously adopted National Defense Authorization Act of 2014, which authorizes funding before appropriations are made.
A line-item change during negotiations between the House and Senate slashed 83 percent of the program's funding before the final version of the spending bill reached the president's desk.
The funding reduction doesn't eliminate the vehicle program, but Army officials and local experts have said it signals an end for now.
Peter Keating, vice president of government relations and communications at General Dynamics Land Systems, said that company also expects the 2014 funding appropriation will allow it to fulfill the current contract, but then wind down the program later.
He declined to comment on how many GDLS jobs are connected to the program or might be affected.
GDLS has about 1,600 employees in Macomb County, across various contract programs. The news on Ground Combat Vehicle comes as it is also facing another revenue loss on the Namer, a tracked heavy personnel carrier assembled from GDLS components for the Israeli government.
Media reports in January said Israel's latest five-year spending plan calls for no more than 170 vehicles through 2017. That's compared with more than 380 kits over eight years under a 2010 contract for GDLS.
Assuming GDLS resembles BAE in employees working on the Ground Combat Vehicle, more than 150 jobs could be affected.
Analysts told Crain's the recent vehicle contract losses could translate into cuts of 100 or more jobs at each company in Sterling Heights, as well as increased bidding competition from other contractors in the next few months for other programs. An Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle contract decision could come in November.
"I am very bearish on the outlook for the armored vehicle industry in the U.S. But for the war in Iraq, what's happening right now would have already happened 10 years ago," said James Hasik, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., and a consultant to defense contractors. "Because there really are not any compelling developments among our adversaries that suggest there's something wrong with most of the vehicle fleet capabilities we have now."
Hasik said the companies will likely wind down the program this year and salvage whatever research or new technology they can from it for other programs, and that the loss could be slightly worse for BAE, which suspended production on other tracked heavy vehicles in the United Kingdom in recent years and may downsize those programs in the U.S. as well.
Finding alternatives
Dean Lockwood, weapon systems analyst at Forecast International in Newtown, Conn., said both companies will likely contend for the AMPV, an alternative for the Army's aging fleet of M113s, tracked personnel vehicles that entered production in the 1960s, he said.
"That's the sort of program, which in a way is higher-priority than GCV," Lockwood said. "In the long run, yes, they would both like to have had a big, new contract, especially in this market, and this (Ground Combat Vehicle loss) is going to hurt. But it might not hurt that bad."
Signorelli said BAE expects to be a contender for the AMPV, but hopes to hear sooner on U.S. Marine Corps contract awards for the Amphibious Combat Vehicle and an upgrade to its Armored Amphibious Vehicle, before the GCV contract expires. If it has some success there, that might mitigate job losses as employees can transfer into new programs, he said.
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Frank Bidart was born in Bakersfield, California, in 1939 and educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. Bidart's first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Howard for the Braziller Poetry series, but it wasn't until the publication of The Sacrifice (1983) that Bidart's poetry began to attract a wider readership. Bidart's early books arecollected in In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (1990).
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Actor Ashton Kutcher has filed to officially end his marriage to Demi Moore, more than a year after their split.
The Hollywood couple announced its separation in November, 2011 after six years as husband and wife, and now the Two and a Half Men star has kickstarted the divorce process.
Kutcher, who has hired celebrity attorney Laura Wasser to represent his case, filed papers in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday (21Dec12), citing irreconcilable differences for the break-up.
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Derek Stone of Georgia, Vt., was arrested for possession of a controlled drug with intent to distribute. After he consented to a search of his vehicle, police found the vegetative matter, believed to be marijuana, a digital scale and another substance that appeared to be hashish, according to a press release from state police.
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ITV has been adding more video content to its mobile service recently, as well as promoting it between TV programmes.
With this in mind, I decided to take a look at the site and compare it with the BBC's offering, which was upgraded earlier this year...
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ITV's mobile site offers news and weather, details on ITV's programming, as well as features on the broadcaster's TV shows. It also offers a range of chargeable downloads, including ringtones, wallpapers, games and videos.
A mobile site needs to be relatively basic as many people are accessing on small screens when they are out and about, have to pay more according to how much they download, and don't want to have to waste time on navigation and page loading.
The homepage on ITV Mobile doesn't really help these users much:
I'm viewing the site on an iPhone with a decent size screen. With other handsets though, more than half of the screen would be taken up by the banner and ads, which means more time spent scrolling.
Also, many articles are split over one or more pages, which means more time spent loading new pages.
I was hoping to review some of the video content on the ITV Mobile site, but found that every piece of video content on the site could not be viewed on my phone, with no explanation for the problem, despite searching through the help and FAQs sections for an answer.
Which means I can't get my recap of Coronation Street...
Overall, the site is very basic in appearance, and doesn't seem to have a lot of content on offer. In fact, the Mirror's mobile site, advertised on ITV Mobile, does a much better job:
The site's usability is poor, especially when it comes to navigation. There is no link back to the homepage from some sections, and news and sport articles are not categorised to make it easy to move around.
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More irritating is the fact the ITV diverts me to the mobile version of its website, even when I try to access it through the iPhone's Safari browser.
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The BBC homepage also fills much of the screen with an image, rather than showing the menu and news headlines. As with ITV Mobile, this picture would take up a large portion of the screen on some mobiles.
Below the pictures though, the top stories are displayed and the BBC has done a far better job of categorising content, making it easier to scan the page and find the section you want:
One other thing it has over the ITV mobile site is that the links stand out more, making them easier to find and click on.
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As well as being a better visual experience, the BBC Mobile site is more user friendly and easy to navigate than ITV's effort. Better still, I'm not forced to use the mobile site on the iPhone, though, for finding headlines or football scores, it is quicker than the Safari version.
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New broadband survey notes progress in four years in Nebraska
LINCOLN—Although elderly and low-income Nebraskans continue to lag behind other demographic groups in Internet access, they have made significant gains in the last four years, according to a new survey.
The survey, "Internet Connectivity and Use in Nebraska: A Follow-up Study," tracks progress made since a 2010 survey that asked about Nebraskans' current use of technology, their opinions about community technology resources and their technology training needs.
Tracking this information is key, said Chuck Schroeder, founding executive director of the Nebraska Rural Futures Institute.
"We know that Internet access, and the speed and reliability of broadband service, are critically important to the viability and resiliency of rural communities," he said. "Entrepreneurial business opportunities, robust educational programming, quality healthcare and overall quality of life are significantly enhanced when current information technology is part of the community infrastructure. And rural people are at a significant disadvantage when it is not. While the disparity between rural and urban locales continues, we are pleased to see the progress shown in this report."
Both surveys were conducted by the Nebraska Broadband Initiative, a partnership of state and University of Nebraska entities.
Overall, 86% of Nebraska households have Internet access, and 82% have broadband service, up from 81% and 76%, respectively, since 2010.
While older people, people with lower household income, people with lower education levels, households without children and households in nonmetropolitan areas continue to be less likely to have Internet access and, specifically broadband service, some of those groups increased Internet access considerably since 2010, noted Becky Vogt, survey research manager with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Persons aged 65 and older with Internet access at home increased from 56% to 69%. For broadband service, those numbers are 48% and 64% in 2010 and 2014, respectively.
The proportion of persons with the lowest household incomes with broadband service at home increased from 44% to 53%.
The survey also found that Nebraskans in the Lincoln and Omaha areas were more likely to have broadband service at home—90% and 87% respectively—compared to Central Nebraska's 73%. However, Central Nebraska has seen a significant increase, from 56% in 2010.
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Sixty-five percent of non-Internet users don't have a computer; 36% said Internet access is too expensive; and 34% say they have no interest in the Internet.
Use of several Internet activities has increased in four years, including: social networking, up from 69% to 80%; watching videos, up from 72% to 79%; online banking or bill pay, up from 72% to 79%; VoIP, Skype, magicJack, or other video phoning technology, up from 19% to 37%; and two-way audio/video meetings, up from 15% to 27%.
Nebraska households are generally satisfied with the reliability, speed and support of their Internet service but less satisfied with its price.
Seventy-seven percent of Nebraska households have access to a local place, such as a library or school, where use of Internet-accessible computers is free.
Many Nebraskans are interested in information technology courses such as website development and basic computer networking. And most prefer traditional delivery methods for this training, such as CD or DVD, face-to-face workshops, online courses and videos.
Frank Landis, chairman of the Nebraska Public Service Commission, said he was encouraged by the findings.
"Today's survey report shows real progress in the deployment and utilization of high-speed Internet capability in Nebraska. It reveals that almost nine in 10 Nebraska households have Internet access at home," he said. "However, a gap remains for consumers living in our rural areas, for low-income consumers, and for our aging population. For example, over a third of non-users cite affordability as the reason for not subscribing to Internet at home."
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- Energy Justice Platform
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See our printable Natural Gas Factsheet and, for info on fracking violations in Pennsylvania, see our Know Your Driller reports
Workshops and trainings, plus internship and volunteer opportunities to work with front-line communities in Pennsylvania, available through our Energy Justice Shale Initiative.
Natural gas is a fossil fuel that is often promoted as "cleaner" than coal, but which has its own serious environmental hazards. Natural gas is NOT a "transition" fuel. Natural gas extraction threatens ecosystems from northern Alaska and Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, including drilling on farms, public lands, forests and parks, in the Rocky Mountains and other coal-field communities, off of U.S. coastal waters and possibly even under the Great Lakes. Deep drilling technologies such as "hydraulic fracturing" or "fracking" have recently opened areas of the U.S. to drilling, leaving a legacy of groundwater pollution. Hydraulic fracturing is the process of injecting water, salt, and a cocktail of hazardous chemicals deep underground to break open rock formations from which natural gas is extracted. Hydraulic fracking techniques threaten communities facing drilling operations and downstream communities, including communities near "frac" wastewater treatment plants. This wastewater can contain radioactive materials, high levels of salt that affects aquatic life, and carcinogenic elements and compounds such as arsenic and benzene.
Pipelines and compressor stations add to the harms, crossing all sorts of ecosystems. Even water bodies like Lake Erie and the Long Island Sound have faced proposals to bury pipelines in underwater trenches that involve stirring up toxic sentiment accumulated on lake/sound floors.
Natural gas power plants are significant air pollution sources, releasing hazardous air pollutants, global warming pollution and fine particulate matter.
Natural gas is worse than coal for global warming
While the smokestack emissions from gas-burning power plants are lower than coal, gas is worse because of the leakage from the wells to the pipelines and compressor stations to the end-uses -- since methane (the principle component of natural gas) is far more potent at heating the atmosphere than carbon dioxide (which is produced when coal or gas are burned).
The newest science on methane's global warming potential shows that it's far more potent than previously thought:
Methane's Global Warming Potential (number of times worse than CO2)
|Over 100 years
|Over 20 years
|According to
|U.S. EPA (operating on the scientific understanding from the 1990s; archive of EPA page using this old figure as recently as April 13, 2015)
|U.S. EPA's new regulations, proposed April 2013, effective Jan. 1, 2014 (see Table 2) (based on 2007 IPCC data) EPA is knowingly using this outdated GWP in its June 2016 Oil and Natural Gas Rule and its August 2016 Landfill Gas Rule simply "to be consistent with and comparable to key Agency emission quantification programs such as the Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (GHG Inventory), and the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP)." See footnotes 15 and 5 in these rules, respectively.
|2009 NASA Scientists' research (abstract) (full paper)
|International Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report, 2013 (see Table 8.7 on p714 in Chapter 8 of the report)
Considering that it's the near-term (20 year) time frame in which we must avoid global warming tipping points (like the thawing of the arctic tundra that would release far more methane), these higher 20-year figures should be used when evaluating the global warming impacts of methane. Despite this updated scientific understanding, EPA still regulates methane as if it's only 20-some times worse than CO2. Find this discussed more in these articles:
Natural gas is unavoidably worse than coal for the climate, due to methane leakage throughout the system. It used to be thought that if the total leakage exceeds 3.2%, natural gas becomes worse for the climate than coal. It's now known that natural gas is worse than coal if leakage exceeds just 2.8%. Recent studies have found actual leakage rates of 4% over a Colorado gas field and 9% leakage in the Uinta Basin of Utah.
Leakage in gas distribution systems is also extensive. Studies in Boston and Washington, DC have documented this:
The latest science shows that EPA has underestimated methane emissions from fracking by a factor of 100 to 1,000 times. See:
Further studies on the global warming impacts of natural gas, and gas leakage rates, can be found here:
Natural gas power plants, prices and import / export
Since around 1997, there have been somewhere on the order of 1,000 proposals for new natural gas power plants in the U.S. Approximately 90% of power plant proposals in the late 1990s were for natural gas. Only about 400 of these were built and some aren't even operating, because of then-high gas prices. Many were defeated by local opposition or withdrawn for economic reasons, since the industry went overboard. Since the fracking boom, a new (but far smaller) wave of proposed new natural gas power plants, and conversations from coal to gas, is is sweeping the country. Some coal, "biomass" and nuclear facilities are closing because they cannot compete with the temporarily low prices of gas.
97% of natural gas consumed in the U.S. is from the U.S. and Canada. However, conventional natural gas production has peaked in North America. Until the fracking boom, more wells were drilled, but gas production had leveled off. Between 1999 and 2004, natural gas prices have tripled as imports from Canada slowed and domestic production failed to keep up with demand. To feed the increasing demand, liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals were proposed, to enable imports so that the U.S. can use its military might to dominate the world competing for the remaining natural gas, now that oil production has started peaking globally. The U.S. had 5 LNG terminals and out of approximately 60 additional LNG terminals proposed, six new ones were built, mostly on the Gulf Coast.
Since the fracking boom, some of these LNG proposals have turned to trying to export gas to countries like China and Japan where gas prices are far higher. As of 2013, there are over 30 proposals for LNG export terminals in North America.
Natural gas extraction was expected to peak globally around 2020, leading to serious global conflicts as China and other large and growing economies continue down the path of increased dependence on fossil fuels. However, the fracking boom opened up new areas which will extend that peak a bit, but not nearly as much as the industry purports.
Terrorism/Accident Risk
This threat analysis for the (now withdrawn) Keyspan LNG terminal proposal in Providence, Rhode Island provides a far more honest and detailed assessment of the terrorism threat to LNG tankers. For some of the most serious threats, see the sections on large caliber rockets, shaped charges and attacks via boat starting on pages 89, 96 and 101, respectively.
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NA Juniors Game Night: 10-6-12
Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
Blainville-Boisbriand Armada 1 @ Gatineau Olympiques 2
C Cedric Paquette, BLB: 0-0-0, -1, 4 PIM (slashing, roughing), 4 SOG, 3 Hits
Season totals: 8 GP, 4-4-8, +7, 14 PIM
Paquette had his two game multi-point streak come to an end. He led the team in hits on Saturday against Gatineau. The Armada outshot the Olympiques 32-21, including 16-5 in the first period. They also had a 1-0 lead half-way through the final stanza before Gatineau took over.
Cape Breton Screaming Eagles 5 @ Val-d'Or Foreurs 3
D Artem Sergeev, VDO: 0-0-0, -1, 2 PIM (interference), 2 SOG, 0 Hits
Season totals: 6 GP, 1-2-3, -1, 4 PIM
Alexandre Lavoie (undrafted) had two goals and a couple helpers to pace the Eagles.
Note: Nikita Kucherov (Quebec) remains out with a shoulder injury.
Ontario Hockey League
Guelph Storm 3 @ Owen Sound Attack 4 (SO)
C/W Tanner Richard, GUE: 0-1-1, -1, 2 PIM (roughing)
Season totals: 7 GP, 1-8-9, +2, 12 PIM
D Jake Dotchin, OS: 0-0-0, -1, 2 PIM (high sticking)
Season totals: 7 GP, 0-2-2, -1, 8 PIM
Guelph completed their third game in three nights, losing in a shootout to Owen Sound, 4-3. The Storm earned five of a possible six points in the three games. Richard (pictured) had five assists in the stretch. Owen Sound leads the Midwest Division with 11 points to Guelph's nine.
Peterborough Petes 3 @ Barrie Colts 4
D Slater Koekkoek, PBO: 0-0-0, E, 0 PIM
Season totals: 6 GP, 0-2-2, -5, 6 PIM
A day after Petes captain Koekkoek spoke called his team out for their recent play, Peterborough put forth a better effort, but came up short in Barrie. The Petes had been outscored 14-3 in their last three games, all losses.
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One of the benefits of sitting in the NFL newsroom is chatting about the draft with Daniel Jeremiah, the former Eagles, Browns and Ravens scout who dropped his Mock Draft 2.0 on Friday.
Jeremiah was embedded at last month's Senior Bowl to eye this year's crop of quarterback prospects up close. After what he saw, Jeremiah concluded that none of the signal-callers on hand deserved a first-round grade. Only West Virgina's Geno Smith -- a no-show for Senior Bowl week -- made the cut in Jeremiah's latest mock.
Jeremiah has Kansas City nabbing Smith with the first overall pick, assuming the Chiefs re-sign offensive tackle Branden Albert. If they don't get that done, Jeremiah believes Andy Reid will select Texas A&M tackle Luke Joeckel.
Free-agent signings and roster shuffling can throw draft needs into the blender, and additional passers are likely to creep into the first round. These early mock drafts forecast where players should go. Quarterback-desperate general managers tend to make mincemeat of this process come April.
Ryan Tannehill and Brandon Weeden shot up the boards last season, and Jake Locker, Blaine Gabbert and Christian Ponder all went higher than expected in 2011.
Matt Barkley, Ryan Nassib and Tyler Wilson could ascend this spring -- we also like EJ Manuel, although he's raw. If the first round passes without a handful of these players off the board, expect a fever dream of quarterback picks in Round Two. Teams will not allow these young arms to stray far come April.
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Stocks rose on Tuesday as investors decided that the Russia-Ukraine conflict appears to be cooling off. Prices fell for safe-haven assets like gold and Treasury notes.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index closed at a record high, and so did the Russell 2000 index of small-company stocks. All 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 index rose. The Dow Jones industrial average has risen five out of the last six trading days.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 227.85 points, or 1.4 percent, to 16,395.88.
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- December 03, 2010
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Starring Christina Applegate as Roxy Fedaro
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Ewing M. Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri Attendance: 25,665
Young arms Skoglund, Giolito set to battle
MLB Headlines
- Dodgers closer Jansen comes off DL
- Kluber tops Porcello, BoSox for 16th win
- White Sox manager Renteria hospitalized
- Rookie Wilson helps Braves down Bucs 1-0
- Davis' HR highlights A's rout of Rangers
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Eric Skoglund could have not scripted a better major league debut.
On May 30, he worked 6 1/3 scoreless innings and allowed two hits in a 1-0 Kansas City Royals' victory over the Detroit Tigers and Justin Verlander.
Skoglund, however, has allowed 16 runs on 21 hits over 7 2/3 innings in three starts and one relief appearance since them.
The Royals would like to see the Skoglund of May 30 when he starts Wednesday against the Chicago White Sox in the finale of the three-game series.
"That's what I'm looking for, another one of those," Skoglund said of repeating the success he had in his debut. "To put us in a good position to win. These guys have been battling pretty hard in trying to stay in it. I'm going to do everything in my power to contribute and put us in a good position to win."
Skoglund knows the importance of this start with the Royals in a dogfight to stay in contention for the second American League wild card slot.
"Especially now, every game matters and every win matters," Skoglund said. "That's the way we look at it. I'm excited for the test ahead."
He has not pitched since throwing 81 pitches in a three-inning relief appearance on Sept. 2 at Minnesota.
"I'm extremely excited," he said. "It's nice to get back out there. It's been a little bit. That's always, I think, the most difficult part, is just taking some time off and jumping back out there. It's everything you work for. I've got to do everything I can to help this team win."
The White Sox, who are in last place in the AL Central, will counter with highly-touted rookie right-hander Lucas Giolito, who was acquired in a December 7 trade with the Nationals. He is 2-2 with a 2.84 ERA in four starts, walking eight and striking out 23 in 25 1/3 innings.
"I don't think a starting pitcher can go into a game trying to avoid bats," Giolito said. "I'll take contact early all day, let my defense work behind me. Strikeouts are useful, but I'm just trying to pitch as deep into the game as possible.
"When you get the opportunity to get ahead of guys, maybe they're taking strikes early in the count, you can try to put them away. But from pitch one, I'm trying to get them out as quickly as I can."
The Royals are aggressive at the plate.
"I try to stick with my strengths," Giolito said. "It's good to know some things off the scouting reports, but I like to pitch to my strengths. That's myriad things, change-up a lot, throwing fastballs up and in a lot. I'll make adjustments off how guys are swinging."
Giolito said he does not consider his September starts as an audition for the 2018 rotation.
"I don't really worry about that kind of thing," he said. "Obviously, with how I've pitched and how I want to continue to pitch, I'd love to be in the starting rotation next year. It's not a worry of mine. I come to the field every day with something to work on to improve myself as a pitcher. On every fifth day, when I get a chance to pitch, I try to go out and pitch as deep in the game as I can to give our team a chance to win."
"I feel like I'm throwing the ball pretty well. I like the way it's coming out. There's still a lot to work on. I need to command my off-speed a little bit better. My last start I fell behind too many batters. I'm hoping tomorrow I can come out and throw strikes."
In his previous start, a loss Friday against San Francisco, Giolito allowed five runs, three earned, on three hits with five strikeouts and four walks. He was ejected in the sixth inning by home plate umpire Gabe Morales for debating strikes and balls.
The Royals and White Sox have split the first two games of the series.
Jose Abreu ended a home run shy of the cycle in Chicago's 11-3 win on Monday while Brandon Moss hit a grand slam in Kansas City's 4-3 win on Tuesday.
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By Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Caroline Kennedy faced a friendly U.S. Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday on her nomination as President Barack Obama's next ambassador to Japan, amid memories of her father, the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, and uncles who served in the chamber.
"This appointment has a special significance as we commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of my father's presidency. I am conscious of my responsibility to uphold the ideals he represented - a deep commitment to public service, a more just America and a more peaceful world," Kennedy said.
She noted her father had hoped to be the first sitting U.S. president to make a state visit to Japan. John F. Kennedy, a World War Two veteran who had fought against Japan in the Pacific, was felled by an assassin's bullet when she was a young girl, as was her uncle Robert, a U.S. senator and attorney general.
Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked about touchy issues such as trade policy, the thousands of U.S. troops based in Japan and relations with China, but made clear they expected Kennedy would easily be confirmed to the high-profile post.
"I doubt you're going to get much of a hard time here for lots of reasons," Senator Bob Corker, the top Republican on the committee, told the nominee as the hearing began.
Kennedy, a lawyer, is president of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and chairs an advisory committee at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. Active in Democratic politics, the 55-year-old was an early and prominent supporter of Obama in his initial quest for the presidency in 2008.
If confirmed as expected by the full Senate, she would be the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to Japan.
"Ms. Kennedy, your uncle Ted was a good friend to me here in the Senate and a good friend to many of our colleagues," said Senator Robert Menendez, chairman of the panel, referring to the late Senator Edward Kennedy, who held his Senate seat for half a century.
Edward Kennedy's widow Victoria attended, as did first-term U.S. Representative Joseph Kennedy, a cousin of the nominee.
"I know that Ted is very proud today to have you here continuing a long family tradition of outstanding service to our nation," said Republican Senator John McCain, who ran against Obama in the 2008 presidential race.
Senator Ed Markey, a Democrat and former congressman elected to her late uncle's Massachusetts Senate seat this year, told Kennedy that her family had inspired him to enter politics.
Japan is a particularly close and important ally of the United States. Many past ambassadors have been well-known political figures, including former Vice President Walter Mondale.
Kennedy's stature as a close Obama ally and leading member of a storied U.S. political dynasty sends a strong signal about the value the United States places on the relationship. Japan's ambassador to Washington, Kenichiro Sasae, attended the hearing.
The foreign relations panel will vote on Kennedy's nomination at its next business meeting, before it would be sent to the full Senate for approval.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Vicki Allen)


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Who are you calling a saint?
In 1966 U.S. Catholic visited Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker in New York. Part of a series for U.S. Catholic's 75th anniversary.
"To say that Dorothy Day is a saint is to run the risk of boring people," wrote Bruce Cook in the April 1966 issue of U.S. Catholic. In the second installment of his 10,000-word, two-part article on Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement she co-founded, Cook continued, "It has been written, whispered, and proclaimed so often . . . that the notion that we have among us one whose life . . . clearly bears many marks of sanctity has become little more than a commonplace. People no longer are very interested."
Day herself, 68 at the time, was thoroughly annoyed by such talk. "She hates it," her friend Betty Bartelme told Cook. "She calls it being 'prematurely canonized.' "
Day sensed that what many who called her a saint really meant was: "Oh, yes, that Dorothy Day, she's a saint, all right . . . and all the rest of [her] looney Catholic Workers. . . . All that pacifism and works of mercy . . . well, that would be great if the world were made up of saints like Dorothy Day. But it's not. I mean, there's such a thing as taking what it says in the Bible too literally."
After discussing Peter Maurin, the other co-founder of the Catholic Worker; some of the movement's more famous "alumni" (including then-Senator and soon-to-be presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy); and her past fiction writing, Cook asked Day directly how it felt being called a saint.
"Dorothy snorted and waved her hand in disgust. 'Oh,' she said, 'this has been going on since the Second World War. It's just an easy way to write us off. . . .' She smiled suddenly then, with an almost mischievous expression on her face, and said, 'They still call me Moscow Mary, though.' ''
At her death in 1980, historian David O'Brien would call Day "the most influential, interesting, and significant figure" in the history of American Catholicism. And a couple of years later U.S. Catholic's long-time columnist Father Henry Fehren made the case for her official canonization.
Fehren's article "Let's canonize Dorothy Day" in the magazine's sister publication Salt gave three reasons why she was "a saint for our time and place": she was an independent layperson "always loyal to the church but always responsible to Christ"; her "thorough opposition to war and the means of war"; and she modeled a contemporary, realistic way to be a saint by showing "how to love" today.
Although Day was loath to be dismissed as a plaster-of-paris saint on a pedestal, canonizations-like funerals-are more for the living than for the dead, Fehren pointed out. Canonization would mean that "more people would learn about her and be inspired and strengthened by her."
In 1998 another Catholic Worker "alum," Robert Ellsberg, told U.S. Catholic that a St. Dorothy Day would bring three special gifts: her life's vocation of combining charity with justice, her rediscovery and commitment to the ideal of gospel nonviolence, and her example of lay leadership in the church.
Following Fehren's article, the Claretians, publishers of U.S. Catholic, initiated a grassroots effort for Day's canonization that has included the publication of prayer cards and posters (still available from our office ) as well as collecting letters and testimonies in favor of Day's canonization.
In 1997 the Claretians renewed their call for Day's canonization by presenting the testimonies they had collected to Cardinal John O'Connor, asking him to initiate the official canonization process. It was at O'Connor's request that in 2000 the Vatican declared Day a Servant of God and officially opened her sainthood cause.
In her 1966 interview with U.S. Catholic, Day expressed some exasperation with visitors to the Catholic Worker's St. Joseph House of Hospitality who, upon seeing the poverty there, "whisper to each other, 'How can they live like this?' Don't they know that this is how many people in America have to live? What can we do about it?"
"Well," she sighed, "I do think that sooner or later we really should give Christianity a try sometime. Don't you?"
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History should mark March 18, 2012 as an important date on the road to a just and peaceful resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict. That was the date on which an impeccably-Zionist American Jew -- Peter Beinart -- had an op-ed in the New York Times calling on American Jews to boycott the Israeli government colonization enterprise in the West Bank, a boycott campaign he dubbed "Zionist BDS"
The purpose of this campaign is to rescue the two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, because the Israeli government colonization project in the West Bank is an existential threat to the two-state solution, and if there is no external change in the situation -- an external change that increases pressure on the Israeli government to change course -- the clear trend is that the colonization project will destroy the two-state solution.
Beinart wasn't messing around. He didn't just call for American Jews to join in the consumer boycott of commodities (like Ahava cosmetics) produced in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, as the impeccably-Zionist Americans for Peace Now called for in July 2011. Beinart called on American Jews to "lobby to exclude settler-produced goods from America's free-trade deal with Israel," and to "push to end Internal Revenue Service policies that allow Americans to make tax-deductible gifts to settler charities."
As Beinart noted, American Jews who adopt "Zionist BDS" would simply be joining a campaign that Israeli peace advocates have already adopted. Prominent Israeli writers like David Grossman, Amos Oz and A. B. Yehoshua, Israeli actors, directors, and playwrights, and Israeli teachers are boycotting the Israeli government's colonization project in the West Bank.
In a thoughtful piece this week in The Atlantic, former Israeli official Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation praises Beinart for opening debate on the issue in the American Jewish community, and refutes arguments that have been advanced against Beinart's call.
In particular, Levy highlights the crux of the issue: Beinart's call gives American Jews the opportunity to choose sides against "two state posing." Since the two state solution isn't likely to happen without pressure against the West Bank colonization project, to claim support for two states while opposing pressure is to support a goal while opposing the means necessary to get there.
But Levy stops short of endorsing Beinart's call, saying: "Zionist BDS alone is unlikely to change Israeli policy."
That is no doubt true, but it overlooks a key point. The main point of Zionist BDS is to be an organizing tactic for public education and mobilization, especially in the Jewish community: an organizing hook for a "long march through the Jewish institutions," as Herbert Marcuse might have put it.
Polls have long shown that the majority of American Jews support the establishment of a Palestinian state. But that majority opinion has not yet been translated into action in Washington, because there is no Jewish political infrastructure yet capable of effecting the translation. There are no Jewish institutions with broad reach which are poised to effectively help American Jews "lobby to exclude settler-produced goods from America's free-trade deal with Israel," nor to "push to end Internal Revenue Service policies that allow Americans to make tax-deductible gifts to settler charities." If we went tomorrow to our representatives in Congress and asked for support for these measures, our representatives might well say: who's backing this campaign? As of this moment, in Washington political terms, we wouldn't have a very compelling answer. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try -- we have to start somewhere, and no such campaign is likely to be victorious on the first ask. It does mean that it makes sense also to think in terms of intermediate steps.
So on our way to demanding that settler-produced goods be excluded from the U.S.-Israel FTA, and that financial support of settler groups no longer be subsidized by U.S. tax dollars, we should consider some intermediate battles to build capacity, and to show Members of Congress that there is organized American Jewish support for U.S. government policies that put pressure on the West Bank colonization project.
The first step is to open debate. We need a broad, open debate in the American Jewish community on Zionist BDS, because that's a key step to getting the progressive edge of American Jewish opinion to start adopting it.
And Passover is the perfect time to start this debate, because Passover is a time for reflection and discussion on the obligations that Jewish history imposes on Jews to act effectively for social justice today. Is it righteous for an American Jew to purchase Ahava cosmetics, when this purchase supports the West Bank colonization enterprise that is blocking the two state solution? That's a question that every American Jew should be considering.
On Passover, we eat matzoh, the "bread of affliction," a symbol of slavery, but also a symbol of liberation. The transformation from oppression to liberation is a universal human story. Wouldn't it be wonderful if in the year to come we had a credible basis for celebrating the coming transition of the Palestinian people from oppression to liberation? Chag sameach!


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Fortunately, I had just received Ina Garten's Cookbook that I ordered from Amazon, yesterday. I took it with me to the hair salon to read. I realize that I've been posting a lot of recipes from Ina Garten-- and I can assure you that I have not become an obsessed fan of hers. I just find that I can relate to most of her recipes. Like Ina, I enjoy cooking and baking, and I try to buy the best quality ingredients possible. There are times, however, when I can't quite afford her pricey selection of liqueurs, because we don't drink a lot of cocktails. But, for the most part, the majority of her recipes are right up my alley.
I zeroed in on Page 82 for Parmesan Chicken and Page 116 for Provencal Tomatoes. Fortunately, I had almost all of the ingredients on hand and we love LOTS of sweet, red ripe tomatoes in our backyard. All I needed to do was buy fresh chicken and I decided to pick up asparagus.
Our dinner guests are very easy to please, so I didn't feel pressure on what to make. I also felt confident that this dinner would not be too much for my exhausted, mental state of mind, after a very hectic two weeks at my job. It's a good thing, because I arrived home at 4:00 and our guests were due to arrive at 5:30... and I did not have a dessert, nor did I have time to stop and buy one! Yikes!
Since I was racing the clock, I didn't take my usual step-by-step photos, but these recipes are very simple to make.
First the Parmesan chicken-- the chicken breasts were boneless and skinless (to save time), so I butterflied them. I covered the chicken with plastic wrap and pounded them thin. I grabbed three pie plates-- one was filled with flour, seasoned with kosher salt and fresh ground pepper.
The second was filled with two eggs and a little water, then whisked.
The third plate was filled with panko crumbs. Ina uses bread crumbs (and I make my own), but I really like the crunchiness of panko crumbs. To the panko crumbs, I added freshly ground Parmesan (using my food processor, since I buy my Parmesan in chunks). I seasoned the crumbs with about 1 Tablespoon of homemade Italian blend (dried thyme, oregano, basil and a little marjoram). Like an assembly line, I dipped the chicken in flour, egg and crumbs and set them in the fridge.
My husband picked the tomatoes but I had only one large one and the rest were medium sized. No worries-- I cut them in half and removed the seeds and juice.
For the tomatoes, I decided to use the rest of my panko crumbs, instead of bread crumbs. I didn't have scallions, so I improvised and used shallots. My Italian parsley isn't growing back, so I grabbed curly parsley from the garden-- which is plentiful. (You can use dried herbs, too.) I had LOTS of leftover crumb filling, by the way, so they are in my fridge for quick meals this week. NOTE: drizzling olive oil to the seasoned panko crumbs is what I do, nowadays.
I filled the tomatoes and preheated the oven to 400F.
NOTE: Towards the end of the baking time for the tomatoes, I slip a small pat of unsalted butter on top. Fantastic!
Last, I picked two fresh lemons from our tree and made Ina's lemon vinaigrette. Could it be any simpler? Lemon juice, kosher salt & pepper. I set a whisk and a bottle of extra virgin olive oil close by. I open up a package of fresh mixed salad greens into a bowl and chilled it.
My husband, bless his heart, helped by tidying up behind me and setting the table. I quickly changed my clothes and the doorbell rang at exactly 5:30pm.
I think that Ina's gift of entertaining helped me to pull off this dinner in a short time. I was able to chat with our guest for a few minutes, and then I was able to begin dinner. The tomatoes were put into the oven and I set up the stove to cook the chicken. I wanted to cook the chicken all at once, so I set my griddle on the stove and another large pan.
NOTE: So, here we are, back to my older photos circa 2009--
...I said a silent prayer of thanks that the rest of the side dishes would be cooked in the oven.Using olive oil and unsalted butter, the chicken cooked about 3 minutes per side until golden...
Timing is everything, as my mother always preached to me. The asparagus were perfectly roasted in 10 minutes, and I squeeze a little fresh lemon juice on top. I added Gruyere cheese on top (sometimes I skip the cheese, and add a small pat of unsalted butter) of the tomatoes and returned them to the oven for about 1 more minute.
In the meantime, I drizzled olive oil into the season lemon juice and tossed it into the salad greens. Time to plate dinner-- 15 minutes after I started cooking!
TASTING NOTES: It is such joy, as many of you know, when dinner guests show delight in their eyes when I serve them a plate like this! Honestly, this was fast and easy-- and very delicious. I loved the freshness of the lemon vinaigrette and the salad greens, and the crunchiness of the chicken with the hint of Parmesan cheese. The tomatoes were outstanding, and roasted asparagus are always a big hit.
Still, I wanted to serve a dessert. Fortunately, I had purchased a box of LU Digestive Biscuits a couple of weeks ago. These can be a little tricky to find, but I found them at the grocery store where my son works. It was in the gourmet section. They're quite good, actually.
Ina, once again, inspired me with this easy version of S'mores. We made fresh coffee and I trotted off to the stove (again, thankful that it's a gas range). I simply melted marshmallows and put them in between two of these cookies..
We each ate just one of these, and they were ooey gooey wonderful and rich tasting.
How did I enjoy the musical? It was cute and the kids did a great job...but, by Act Two, my head was on my husband's shoulder and I was sound asleep!
As always, a printable recipe card is at the end of this post.


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The article introduces to people a detailed list of bad habits that allow them to create a healthy lifestyle easily. Is it reliable?
Seattle, Wa (PRWEB) January 15, 2014
The new "A Full List Of Bad Habits" report on the website Vkool.com provides people with popular bad habits. Firstly, the article indicates that most bad habits are caused by two things, including stress and boredom. "People should try taking an honest inventory of their personal life and focus on correcting the bad habits that are creating stress in their life," says Rebecca "Kiki" Weingarten, MSEd, MFA, coach and co-founder of Daily Life Consulting in New York. After that, the author recommends people to stop consuming too much caffeine because it affects stress levels and leads to poor sleep quality. "In the right amount, coffee is really a health food. But over-consumption of caffeine may actually break your concentration by causing jitters and anxiety," says Dawn Jackson Blatner R.D., author of "The Flexitarian Diet." Secondly, the article reveals the importance of a healthy breakfast in children and teens. "It is a common habit to skip breakfast in the morning. Having breakfast boosts metabolism and increases the energy levels throughout the day. Skipping breakfast may put you on the fast track to weight gain, osteoporosis, heart disease, irritability or mood swings, low energy levels, and menstrual irregularity," says Milton Stokes, RD, MPH, chief dietitian for St. Barnabas Hospital in New York City.
Lastly, the article takes readers through a process of discovering how to fix bad eating habits efficiently. People should start each day with a nutritious breakfast and eat more meals with their partner or family. Furthermore, in the report, readers also get to know other bad habits, such as slouching, smoking, nose picking, and drinking too much alcohol. After the "A Full List Of Bad Habits" report was released, a lot of people can quit their unhealthy habits and create new healthy ones with several simple steps.
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Elevate yourself to some of the best views in Vail. This 5-bedroom, 6-bath home has some of the best vistas in Vail. Located at the end of a cul-de-sac, the forest-like setting offers lots of privacy and provides a real Rocky Mountain feel. Elevator Access to all levels. Private master & guest suites on different levels. Large entertainment room on a separate level. Four patios and decks for ample outdoor living. This home was well built and meticulously maintained. Mostly Furnished
Only four miles away from the Village and tucked under the Gore Range at the base of Vail Pass, East Vail is a favorite of locals and Front Range visitors. As a strictly residential area, it offers peace and tranquility as well as sweeping views of its high alpine surroundings. East Vail residents enjoy the many conveniently located hiking trails, a large dog park on the Eagle River, and several waterfalls along the north facing slopes. East Vail is convenient to the heart of town by the free bus system yet maintains moderate property prices in comparison.
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Muppet-Building Contest Show Coming to Syfy
<em>Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge </em>will air in 2014.
Syfy has green-lit a new reality show in which contestants vie for a job in Jim Henson's Creature Shop, the network announced today. Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (a working title) will ask its participants to create "everything from hand puppets to large-scale theatrical creatures that can master the balance between realism and fantasy," according to a statement. The winner gets a dream gig and $100,000, as is de rigueur for these kinds of shows. Brian Henson will serve as the lead judge, with other longtime Henson employees serving as mentors, but there's no word yet on who will host. Can a Muppet host? That would be great.


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Mathematica has long been Frank Scherbaum's tool of choice for his research in seismic hazard analysis. Over the years, he's developed more than 700 functions for his geophysics and seismology studies along with numerous interactive tutorials and Demonstrations.
Now, he's using Mathematica's powerful documentation tools to link all of his work into an integrated system that will be deployed for students, teachers and researchers to use in their probabilistic seismic hazard analysis work.
Scherbaum says, "This is a big advantage to have something in one place where everything works together and where everything is consistent.... You can concentrate on what you want to learn and how you want to learn a program."


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There are plenty of opportunities for people-watching on the High Line, and this Wednesday evening will be no exception. In celebration of Bastille Day, members of the Milliner's Guild plan to repeat their year-old tradition of strolling the High Line while donning their finest hats.
We're not sure what the connection is between hats and Bastille Day, but does it matter? Their fabulous array of hand-crafted hats are beautiful and inspiring, and the hat parade is sure to include an intriguing exhibition of fine bonnets, bowlers, sombreros, and fedoras.
Following their 'millabout' on the High Line, the Guild will bestow their Chapeau Formidable Award to the owner of the evening's best hat. From what we saw last year, there will be quite a few contenders! We can't wait to see what marvelous creations will turn up.


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Our wilderness is under an unprecedented attack from Trump and anti-conservationists in Congress. Help us fight back.
A study published last week in Ecological Applications has shown that polar bear populations in the southern Beaufort Sea region have declined by 40 percent.
This Thanksgiving and holiday season there are so many things for wilderness lovers to be thankful for - in addition to the 758 designated wilderness areas covering nearly 110 million acres of American wild lands. Here's a few at the top of our list:
Thanksgiving is an ideal time to express gratitude for the good fortune in our lives as well as to stop and appreciate the incredible legacy of our wild public lands.
The research analysts and policy experts of the BLM Action Center cover the range of issues associated with protecting BLM lands. Alongside our work on specific land use planning processes, we also conduct independent research and analyses to improve public land management.
The Wilderness Society is leading the way. Acknowledging and protecting lands with wilderness characteristics is a key component of multiple use and sustained yield management, and, importantly, keeps the human-nature relationship intertwined with our approach to public lands policy.
Retired generals, veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S.
A recent legal agreement should settle a long battle over whether or not to allow drilling on the highest lands of the plateau.
The Bureau of Land Management in California has taken a great step forward with its decision to protect a special part of the desert by denying an application for a large-scale solar project in the remote Silurian Valley.
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Some good news for the Too Wild to Drill George Washington National Forest—the US Forest Service has released their new plan for the forest, and keeping drilling out of essential parts of this wi
Show the Trump administration Americans don't support plans to destroy this epic wildland.


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In 1971 Jacques Cousteau, a famous undersea explorer, dubbed the Blue Hole as one of the world's top ten scuba diving sites — this was for a reason, because it offers some of the most spectacular underwater wildlife and fauna on this planet. Check out these quotes from Trip advisor:
"I think this might be the best trip my husband and I have been on. No exaggeration.
I don't even know where to start… It was remote, quiet, and away from the hustle and bustle of normal day-to-day life. The perfect opportunity to kick back and relax, but offering enough activities that we were never bored. Diving was the best I've had (in my limited experience – I am not an advanced diver) and Cardinal was a terrific dive-master. He was really chill and he tried so hard to give us the best experience possible. We saw EVERYTHING – sharks, turtles, octopus, eels, barracudas, lobsters, stingrays, eagle rays, groupers – you name it, we saw it." — Islandgirl678
"We elected to dive the Blue Hole and although the down side of a deep dive is that it is typically short, it was well worth the experience. We were there with much more well travelled divers than I was and they all agreed that it was some of the best diving that they had experienced, other than more exotic locations on the other side of the globe. The staff was super. Our dive master paid extremely close attention to each of us and was great about showing us things in the reef. It was clear he knew the reef as if it were his back yard." — Shanstorm
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Court Strikes Down Cellulosic Biofuel Mandate - Finds EPA Exceeded Statutory Authority
Jan 25, 2013, 03:44 EST
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a decision that questions the motivation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit today vacated EPA's 2012 cellulosic biofuel mandate, concluding that its biased forecast was in 'excess of the agency's statutory authority.'
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"The Court's decision provides welcome relief and puts EPA on notice that it must act as a neutral arbiter rather than a promoter of cellulosic fuel. Instead of facing the reality of zero cellulosic biofuel production under the Renewable Fuels Standards (RFS), EPA wrongly relied upon an inflated production capacity predicted by cellulosic biofuel producers. This resulted in a cellulosic mandate that was impossible to meet and left refiners having to purchase waiver credits that act as a hidden tax on transportation fuels," said American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) President Charles T. Drevna.
While the Court acknowledged that the purpose of the RFS program was to 'increase the production of clean renewable fuels,' it rejected EPA's argument that an aggressive cellulosic mandate was needed to force new technology into the marketplace and held that 'refiners are in no position to ensure, or even contribute to, growth in the cellulosic biofuel industry.' In a win for consumers, the court rejected EPA's philosophy of 'Do a good job, cellulosic fuel producers. If you fail, we'll fine your customers.'
"Today's ruling is especially welcome in light of AFPM's pending petition for a waiver of the 2012 cellulosic mandate based on an inadequate domestic supply. AFPM will continue to challenge what we believe to be arbitrary decisions by EPA and in fact, will move forward with litigation challenging the agency's denial of our 2011 cellulosic biofuels waiver request," Drevna concluded.
AFPM, the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (formerly known as NPRA, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association) is a trade association representing high-tech American manufacturers of virtually the entire U.S. supply of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, other fuels and home heating oil, as well as the petrochemicals used as building blocks for thousands of vital products in daily life. AFPM members make modern life possible and keep America moving and growing as they meet the needs of our nation and local communities, strengthen economic and national security, and support 2 million American jobs.
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